Black hair looks grey/hoary in 7.0 benchmark

[RulerKelso]

Looks like 7.0 still need more work on character lighting. My pitch black hair looks more like grey in most lightings in character creation and also in the benchmark.

Also, most dark skin tints for viera looks like a clay so character looks like a zombie. Most visible under "lominsan lighting".
After i switched my skin color im currently using on main character for a slightly lighter one, skin looked normally, but it is no more the same character im used for.
Not sure if other races has this problem too, or it is only Viera thing.

I hope they will fix char lighting until realease

Rest of the graphics like enviroments and outfits looks great

[RulerKelso]

Here are few screenshots which demonstrate the problem. Even in default char creation lighting, black hair looks grey.
The same during benchmark itself, which demonstrates the ingame lighting. In around 50% cutscenes, character has grey hair.

https://imgur.com/a/xjHbcr4

[Liamont]

Agreed with this. Some screenshots as an example (right is 7.0):

[Zeastria]

I would call this huge graphical downscale....
I'm crying rn!

WHY IS MY EYEBROWS GREY!!!!!
WTF up WITH THAT MOUTH!!!

[Araxes]

Also super dissapointed with dark skins. My Raven Black Miqo'te now looks like a medium grey? All detail seems to dissapear now Especially the Beard dissapears almost entirely.

[Duskane]

I would call this huge graphical downscale....
I'm crying rn!

WHY IS MY EYEBROWS GREY!!!!!
WTF up WITH THAT MOUTH!!!

eye brows just seem lighter in general for male viera

[RulerKelso]

From benchmark, probably using ingame lighting. Also looks more grey than pitch black. They butchered my favourite hair color

[RulerKelso]

Just wanted to remark, that this problem was still not fixed in new, updated benchmark.
Not possible to get nice, natural pitch black color even when gama slider set to 0.

Looks like this problem is not so obvious on other races i tested, so Viera hairstyles were affected the most.
It is like the devs forgot to update highlights for Viera hairstyles which makes the whole hairstyle texture behave like highlighted area, which turns whole hair texture to grayish color in all lighting enviroments except the dark/night environs.

My hope that this will be fixed until DT release, or patched afterwards I dont think this was the intended behaviour.